Civil society’s key claims at the 34th Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies
TB-Net and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) made a submission for the 34th Annual Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies, taking place from 30th May until 3rd June 2022 in New [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Responding to the unprecedent mobilization of children for climate justice
Children’s calls for climate justice have been heard, but largely ignored The world is experiencing an unprecedented mobilization of children acting to demand urgent action to address the ever-escalating climate crisis, which severely affects the [...]
Child Rights Connect and its members engage in the Council’s Special Session on Ukraine
The Human Rights Council decided to organize this week a Special Session to focus on the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression. Child Rights Connect and its members made a [...]
Child Rights Connect In Action: Building political consensus and empowering civil society towards OPIC ratification
The OPIC, a unique instrument that has yet to be ratified by many States Seven years have passed since the entry into force of the Optional Protocol on an Individual Communications procedure (OPIC), an international [...]
Trends on child rights at the Human Rights Council 49 session: updates on child participation and CHRDs; new resolution on family reunification; and a major win for child rights mainstreaming
New space is gained at the Council regarding the participation of children, whilst trends against child participation and child human rights defenders continue. The resolution on the rights of the child and family reunification maintains [...]
📢 For the first time, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights meets with children from all over the world!
On the 5th and 6th of April, children from all around the globe participated in Child Consultations held by the UN CESCR on its next General Comment on sustainable development and economic, social, and cultural [...]